Anatomy of a Suicide - Part 23

Lesson: Thursday 18th January 2018

This lesson was mostly a consolidation lesson but did somewhat follow from Monday's lesson. We looked at Scene 8 again in more detail and blocked Carol's side of the stage which I touched upon in my previous blog. In Bonnie's section of Scene 8 she feeds a rabbit and then leaves the stage. The rabbit is significant because Anna had a rabbit as a child. The rabbit that Bonnie has, is called "Wolf" which is what Carol, Anna, and Jamie talk about in their respective scenes which creates a link through all three eras. In Anna's section of Scene 8 she is getting ready to get married to Jamie - we didn't block this scene because it requires a wedding dress and make up which we didn't have access to in the lesson. As Anna is getting married and seems happy with her life at this point in the play, the audience may again question what and why things go as wrong as they do so that Anna commits suicide as suggested by the title of the play and by Bonnie's previous comments.

We also went over Scene 2 with Chipp which was mainly consolidating what we had done before and making sure that we were learning lines for the scene.

With Starbuck, Cast A went through the play from Scene 1 to Scene 5 which went smoothly in some places but in others wasn't as smooth as they should have been. The main issue that caused this is that often the cues come from other sections in the Scene which means that it doesn't follow on the conversation that I would be having in the Scene with characters such as Jamie. This means that we are still on book for the scenes that we have blocked. I do know some of the scenes such as Scene 2 and Scene 4 on their own in the section but when we add in cues from other sections the complications arise. I know all my cues for Scene 3 but this is because I only have five in the Scene.